https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98992
Bug ID: 98992
Summary: No way to disable AutoText
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.1.1.3 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
There is no way to disable AutoText or change the AutoText for three default
Categories.
Even though I already turned off autocomplete and autocorrect completely, LO
makes suggestions for a few words and will then replaces them if I press return
right afterwards. For instance, ACK then return gets replaced by
Acknowledgement. You then return gets replaced by Yours Truly. The replacements
only happen after I press return. I don't want any of these replacements. They
completely break the flow of my writing process and has often made LO unusable
in writing certain fast-paced scenes (since I use a lot of single word
paragraphs in fast-paced scenes). I've even cleared out the autocomplete and
autocorrect table by deleting all the entries on top of turning off
autocomplete and autocorrect completely.
After a lot of searching, I found my problem is connected to the AutoText
feature, which is listed under Editing (right below the Find & Replace option).
The suggestions and replacement LO inflicts on me are in the Standard category.
But despite what the help pages say about the AutoText option and deleting
entires, the help page is wrong. None of the default entries can be deleted the
way it says. I've found no way to delete the default AutoText settings so
nothing is replaced. I've found no way to turn off AutoText completely either.
(Turning it off complete is preferred)
I tried posting on AskLibreoffice for help and it turns out another person had
the same problem.
There is no way to disable AutoText. Since there is a way to disable
autocomplete/autocorrect, I'm assuming this is an accidential oversight.
I tried going to the AutoText dialog then to the Categories there.
However, the only Category I was allowed to delete was "My Auto Text". When I
selected any other Category ("Business Cards, Work", "Only for Templates", and
"Standard") the delete button was disabled (dark gray and clicking didn't
nothing.)
When I tried to delete anything inside the Categories, I encountered the same
problem, meaning for the categories "Business Cards, Work", "Only for
Templates", and "Standard" i could not delete the entries. I could not even
edit the entries (editting the entries so that the replaced text matched the
originally typed text would work similar to deleting the entry.)
I tried checked LO 5.0 and then the most recent release of LO 5.1.1.3. In the
recent release the AutoText in the menu system was moved to tools, but I still
could not find any option to disable AutoText nor was I able to delete or edit
the offending Categories.
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